Baking dishes made from an exotic ceramic material could speed up the rate at which microwave ovens cook food, reducing the energy needed for cooking.
Microwave ovens use a neat trick to rapidly heat food. Microwaves have an alternating electric component that causes any molecules with a positive charge at one end and a negative charge at the other, such as water, to rotate and align themselves with the field.
The rotating water molecules jostle other nearby molecules, which also begin to...Full Story